CVE-2024-42139 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: Fix improper extts handling

Extts events are disabled and enabled by the application ts2phc. However in case where the driver is removed when the application is running a specific extts event remains enabled and can cause a kernel crash. As a side effect when the driver is reloaded and application is started again remaining extts event for the channel from a previous run will keep firing and the message xtts on unexpected channel\ might be printed to the user.

To avoid that extts events shall be disabled when PTP is released.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f69b31ae9e25dec27ad31fbc64dd99af16ee3d3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d3b4f54582d4e4a02cda5886bb336eeab268cc